Instantaneous Baboonery: a Proven Given

So…for more than four hours Michael
Brown lay on a Ferguson street with no one allowed to check a pulse or any
vital signs…his body simply laid there in a pool of his own blood.

In the very beginning as news of the
Ferguson killing unfolded of an unarmed black male teen gunned down shot six
times in the street with his hands held up, right-wing blog groups were initially
attacking police actions, but wholly for the wrong reason. They were attaching
it to their so called government takeover conspiracy beliefs in beefing up the
idea of stocking homes with all sorts of lethal ammo. But once they found out
they were on the side of liberals and Democrats denouncing the act, they
quickly changed route.

Of course when it became a race issue
they certainly didn’t want to appear they were rooting for minorities now would
they...not that they don’t deny being racist though, as they indeed continually
point out they are not. In fact, as they have done all along such as causing
the fiscal cliff, sequestration, the government shutdown…what they inevitably
follow up with is blame the other side for it. Without hesitation, they are
attempting to portray that it is American blacks and Democrats who are by and
large the racists.

When I’m in argumentative mode with a
Republican and he gives out claims that right-wingers are not prejudice, I
always ask him who ya think the Ku Klux Klan votes for…the Klan certainly doesn’t
pull the lever for any Democrat or liberal Independent. The reason being is
that Republican platforms simply resonate more with them.

Ya know, it’s been a long time now that
I’ve stated to right-wingers concerning conspiratorial theories of a federal
government takeover to forget about it…you need to be looking closer to home at
local police departments. They are the ones who more than likely will take away
individual liberties and rights.

Militarizing community police
departments is asinine…what are local sheriffs thinking they will encounter in
their own communities fully equipping themselves to the hilt with battle zone
military weaponry? Police forces, urban and rural are now equipped with tanks,
heavily fortified personnel carriers, AR-15s, laser point sniper rifles and
night vision goggles. All this military hardware and accessories is for what…to
drive into a neighborhood and up some citizen’s driveway?

In my opinion only, I feel if someone is
accepting a job knowing full well it involves a high possibility they will kill
someone in their respective duties that mentality correlates with the criminal
mind. Then add all this Rambo wannabe mindset with the military toys, incidents
like the following will occur.

This past May in rural Habersham County,
Georgia, the Phonesavah family had just arrived from Wisconsin to stay with the
mother’s sister for a while after their home had burned down in Wisconsin.
Police in the county, felt they had a concrete tip that the family were low
level drug dealers. During the dark of night dressed up in battle gear garb and
without a knock on the door, they broke into the home and immediately threw a stun
grenade into the front room. It landed into the playpen where little
19-month-old toddler, Bounkham Phonesavah was sleeping. The grenade went off
right beside his head causing severe burns and physical trauma. The military,
err ah, police continued on in assaulting the residents before assisting the
critically injured child.

Once arriving at the hospital, the
toddler had to be placed into a coma paralyzing his little body where doctors
could perform the necessary surgeries and administer the urgently needed
medical assistance.

Traumatized, the mother stated to
Atlanta’s WSB-TV 2, “There’s nothing we can do to change the situation; my
husband and I would gladly both give up our lives just to see him not like
this. He’s such a happy little boy, and to see him like this laying there, not
moving, it’s heartbreaking. We just want to hold him and we can’t.”

To make things even worse, the family
had no connection to the suspect police were after. Unfortunately, it worsens
more. The police force, as expressed by their spokesman and police chief, Rick Darby were sorry it happened. But apparently not enough, as they refuse to
pay for the medical expenses that have overwhelmed the family. This child with
severe burns to the face, head and body along with a gashing wound in the chest
will be scarred for life.

If this were a street gang that did
this, they would promptly be arrested, jailed and responsible for all medical
expenses drug money or not. The gang members would be looked upon as wild
animals.

In Ferguson, Missouri on August 09,
2014, 18-year-old unarmed Michael Brown (who was black) was shot down in the
street and as multiple witnesses testified, with his hands up in surrender. He
was shot by Ferguson police officer, Darren Wilson (who is white) for allegedly
jaywalking. Brown lay dead in the middle of the street in his own pool of blood
for hours.

No one from the public, not even Brown’s
mother was allowed access to her son’s body lying in the street. He was in
plain view for her to see, but she was banned to go near his lifeless body. For
more than four hours Brown laid there in the street, not even medics were
called in to inspect the body.

Without giving an incident report
Ferguson police chief, Thomas Jackson only gave an initial accounting that Brown
was a suspect in a convenient store cigar robbery in attempts to vilify the
victim and that Brown was shot only a couple of times as he charged the officer.
He refused to give out the offending cop’s name. The autopsy report however
supported the eye witnesses as opposed to Jackson’s statements showing that the
wounds indeed correlate to hands held up and in entering the backside of Brown,
therefore he could not have been grabbing for Wilson’s gun.

With the community’s call for answers
going unanswered for a week, they organized and began protesting peacefully and
remained peaceful even with police snipers on ceilings with pointed high
powered rifles targeting the crowd. Even with the tear gas canisters being
launched by policemen in full military garb with fingers trained on assault
automatic weaponry, protesters were still acting peaceful, but looting and
destruction of property eventually did take hold.

According to a recent University of
California 2011 case study of 192 cities titled, ‘Designing Force Project’
researchers found that events begin to sour in a hurry when the police force
begins turning out heavily armed in multitudes during assembled peaceful
protests. This intimidates, giving the impression of you against them. It
damages any positive relations and degrades into violence. Overwhelming
aggression reaps aggression.

Professor Nick Adams, the acting fellow
at UC Berkeley’s ‘Institute for Data Science’ states for the most part,
militarized police showing up in force sets the tone of peaceful protest to
devolve into inflaming the crowd.

Adams said, “It just upsets the crowd.
Once police departments come out with overwhelming force, they put themselves
in a hole. It may work out in the end, but they’re going to be sidelined until
that trust is earned again.”

Even that being the case, it turns out
that during the Ferguson looting, it was three-quarters conducted by ill-willed
outsiders. The majority of Ferguson citizens that are 63% black only
participated in the peaceful marches and speeches.

The event quickly turned into a racist
issue and for very good reasoning…it is a racist issue.

Brown’s death while unarmed at the hands
of an armed policeman was just about all America’s black communities and
Americans in general could sustain. There’s been a string of them as of late
and as always, the black victim is portrayed as the villain while conservatives
promote police reports in that the officer was legitimate in his actions.

There are plenty of records on good cops
being killed in the line of duty and that is a good thing. There are even
records of cops committing ‘justifiable homicide’ but unfortunately there are
no records, whether on the federal, state or local levels of cops’
‘unjustifiable’ homicides in killing someone unarmed or not posing a life
threatening gesture to the cop.

Chicago, Illinois ~ percent black
population – 32.9%; percent of population killed by police who were black – 91%;
percent white population – 31.7%; percent of population killed by police who
were white – 4%.

New York City, New York ~ percent black
population – 28.6%; percent of population killed by police who were black –
87%; percent white population – 33.3%; percent of population killed by police
who were white – 4%.

Saginaw, Michigan ~ percent black
population – 46.1%; percent of population killed by police who were black –
100%; percent white population – 37.5%; percent of population killed by police
who were white – 0%.

Of course, Republicans will claim that
this type of data is due to the fact that blacks commit more crime, but that
simply is not true…poverty commits crime, for any area where there is dire
poverty in overall poorer white communities crime is high there too. Crime
doesn’t even rest in poor communities for the affluent in financial crime
schemes also occur and leading up to the ‘Great Recession’ financial and
commercial crimes were rampant, especially as going unabated due to
deregulation.

A major aspect of crime is racism and it
is practiced by police forces and at times largely ignored by the U.S. populace
with an engrained thought that blacks are more prone to police run-ins. I could
give examples of this all across America and we’ll give one here below, but stick
to and concentrate further on Ferguson and the surrounding St. Louis area.

Take for instance, Alex Landau’s case
who is black. Alex was adopted and raised by white parents and speaks better
English than I do as a white West Texan. In 2009, he was a college student
driving around the Denver suburbs with his white friend sitting in the front
passenger side when cops pulled him over. What happens next unfolds on the
audio below. Play and listen.

Landau after the police encounter

First-off, there is a law, the ‘Missouri
Sunshine Law’ that unequivocally states, “must promptly provide an incident
report during a police shooting including detail of the incident and all its
circumstances surrounding the cause to shoot to kill.” It was over ten days
before the incident report was made public and information was heavily
redacted, giving only the date, time and location.

For that matter, until 2012, use of
force reports weren’t kept in a Ferguson officer’s personal file, therefore the
fact that Darren Wilson migrated from a former corrupt police department
fraught with racial tension in the nearby town of Jennings, Missouri, nothing
was on file of what he might have done there or at Ferguson.

But one woman, who had a previous run-in
with Wilson, tells a story of a foul-mouthed uncaring officer. Interviewed by
Don Lemon of CNN a woman who preferred to remain anonymous stated that Wilson
once told her to “shut the fuck up” and “sit the fuck down” as she was trying
to flush mace out of her eyes.

She explained that, “I came outside and
I was trying to pour milk in my eyes and Wilson told me if I poured milk in my
eyes, I was going to be arrested and I was trying to tell him that my eyes were
burning because I was maced, but he told me to ‘shut the fuck up.”’

The Ferguson police department stopped a
black motorist for accidentally driving down a one way highway ramp
accidentally. Once giving them his identity as Henry Davis, they promptly
arrested him mistaking him for a Henry Davis with a warrant out.

Once in police custody, they knocked him
to the floor with four cops beating him and kicking him in the head. Oh, did I
mention this occurred the whole time he was handcuffed? The woman cop who
straddled him and cuffed him while on the floor before the beating was police
officer Kim Tihen who is now sitting on the city council board. If it couldn’t
get any worse, the Ferguson police charged Davis, a totally innocent bystander
who made a wrong turn at the wrong time, with damaging police property because
during the beating, some of his blood splattered onto the cops’ uniforms.

During the protest, St. Ann Missouri
patrolman shouts to the crowd “I’m going to fucking kill you” while pointing
his assault rifle at the protesters. See the below video:

Even direr, the 35 year veteran of the St.
Louis county sheriff department, Dan Page purports that he is not prejudice in
that he will “kill anyone.” See the CNN video below.

Would like to point out that the St. Ann
unidentified patrolman was suspended from performing county duties and Dan Page
was forced to resign after the video revelations were exposed.

Sean Hannity points out that when he’s stopped
by police for speeding, he tells them he had a license for a concealed weapon,
promptly puts his hands to his hips, lifts his shirt and shows them the gun…no
problem. This dorkhead doesn’t even get what it means being black stopped by
police. Now can you imagine Michael Brown doing the same thing…he’d be shot
then and there before ever reaching the bottom of his shirt to lift. Jon
Stewart on a video discussing Ferguson, so poignantly includes Sean’s passive
experience with police.

Below is a video take of Stephen Colbert
peeling the crust off of Fox News’ slanted Ferguson reporting.

Ben Stein whom I normally respect as far
as Republicans go, really got caught off base though in this comment of his.
Concerning Michael Brown, on a recent Newsmax’s conservative Steve Malzberg Show,
Stein had this to say, “He was 6’3”, 300 lbs, and according to what I read in
the New York Times on marijuana. To call him ‘unarmed’ is calling Sonny Liston
unarmed or Cassius Clay unarmed.

First off, the man hasn’t been Cassius
Clay in generations; it has been now for generations Mohammed Ali. Secondly, how
many folks black or white have a little marijuana in their system…it doesn’t
make them lethal and it certainly doesn’t warrant being shot by a cop. Lastly, size
should have no bearing on how many times an unarmed person can be lethally shot
multiple times. If you’re that fearful, shoot out a leg. Have ya ever been shot
in the leg; I haven’t been either, but I hear tell it’s very debilitating.

Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI) decided
to throw his couple of cents worth in on Michael Brown’s demise by saying this
on August 19, “We should take a deep breath, sit back and let law enforcement
do their job.”

In other words, let the police resolve
this through their internal reporting and investigating and simply accept their
explanation. So, as in every previous case of unarmed victims being gunned down
by cops with intent to kill, suspend them with pay for a couple of weeks while
the process of vindicating them is insider conducted.

Let’s see what we actually know now,
since this last straw of unarmed black killings has put a heat load of pressure
in digging out the needle’s truth in that initially doctored and reported
Ferguson police department haystack.

The initial report filed by Officer
Wilson, stated that Brown was inside the patrol car where he beat Wilson and
that is why Wilson shot him “a couple of times” in defense of his life. As the
below video of a credible eyewitness details, Brown never entered the squad car
and was tugging to pull away from Wilson’s grabbing of him. Once loose, Brown
began running away from the car when Wilson began shooting at him. Brown stops
running, turns around with his hands up where Wilson fires at him again. This
happened about 20 feet from the squad car.

The right-wing blog sites began running
with the false story that Wilson was beaten by Brown, it even degraded as long
as the truth goes into Wilson being “savagely beaten,” and Fox News ran with
that bogus story over and over.

The right’s false story telling elevated
even higher, reporting that Wilson suffered a fractured eye socket in being
beaten by Brown. As one can plainly see in the above video, Wilson never
appeared concerned about a fractured eye socket that would’ve been extremely
painful. He never lifts a hand to his eye in the video to cover his supposed
severely injured eye, much less seeking medical aid or a compress. He didn’t
even have a swollen eye and sorry right-wingers, a puffy eye just doesn’t cut
mustard in justifying what Wilson did to Brown.

Also, on a video chat an accidental
audio (hear below) of the encounter recorded the shooting corroborating what
eyewitnesses are stating. This audio has just recently been authenticated by
the FBI and clearly there are more than just 6 shots, much less “a couple.” At
first 2 shots are fired with the last 4 in rapid succession and then there’s a two or three second lull. These rounds are apparently shot as Brown was running away.
When Brown stops and turns around with his hands up, 5 more shots are heard in which
assuredly are the rounds that killed Brown with two hitting him in the face. By August 20th the
Ferguson Police Department has since admitted Wilson fired as Brown was running
away.

As falsely reported, the owner of the
Ferguson convenient store, nor any of his employees never dialed 911 reporting
the theft of a few cigarillos. The owner is adamant on this as expressed by his
lawyer Jake Kanzler. The video only shows Brown shoving a customer as he’s
walking out of the store. Perhaps a customer phoned in, but regardless, this is
not why Brown was accosted by Wilson. Brown was walking in the street where
Wilson shouted, “Get the fuck on the sidewalk,” while driving up in his patrol
car. This was the initiation of the confrontation.

The Ferguson Police department seems to
have a lump on their shoulder to begin with. As cited by the ‘ArchCity
Defenders,’ a St. Louis area defense group for unfair local governance fees and
fines, cites that in 2013 Ferguson police issued 32,927 warrant arrests for
non-violent crimes. That is 10,000 more than the population of Ferguson at 21,
135 citizens. In fact it’s the area St. Louis police departments that seem to
be a bit on the gun-ho side in charging exorbitantly high court fines and fees
in half the region and jailing those who don’t pay up. Little Ferguson
collected $2.6 million in fines and fees while the $20 million collected by the
city of St. Louis was its second highest revenue source. ‘ArchCity Defenders’
spokesmen insist this is unlawful. For ya see, you don’t get $321.00 in fines
and fees and 3 warrants per household from an about-average crime rate. You get
numbers like this from frivolous arrests like jaywalking and constant “low
level harassment involving traffic stops, court appearances, high fines, and
the threat of jail for failure to pay,” as the defenders organization has pointed out.

In regards to the St. Louis police
force, they were the ones guarding the street Brown was gunned down on. A memorial
had been set up honoring Brown with the usual flowers, mementos, and candles.
Brown’s mother even laid flowers and spelled out her slain son’s name in petals
covering up his blood stains. One canine cop took his dog over to the memorial
instructed him to pee on it and allowed him to do so until the dog finished.
Then after the cops were called off, they ran over the memorial with their
exiting squad cars. This in itself would, in my opinion make the affected want
to forget peaceful protesting and incite an urge to riot.

Speaking of Brown’s mother, it is
hauntingly familiar how Brown’s parents have reacted much like Trayvon Martin’s
parents in insisting they want peaceful outcomes to their unarmed sons’
needless deaths.

Sides have been chosen, it’s not just a
nation of red and blue divisiveness, the U.S. is also saddled in comparable
black and white as well…blue/black vs. red/white. This must be why the right is
always so frustrated and angry…they always choose the wrong cause and that
applies with Ferguson as well. To side with the cops, in this case of an
unarmed black man being shot multiple times, an event that keeps repeating
itself, you’re going to lose if America has any compassion left to individual
rights to liberty and justice.

As there have been crowds protesting for
Brown, Wilson has a growing following of protesters from the right. Various
right-wing groups have raised approaching a half million dollars for Wilson.

In St Louis on August 23rd,
around 100 virtually white protesters in support of Wilson began demonstrating.
One woman, there with her daughter said she came out to set things straight and
quizzed, “They are saying it’s murder because a white officer killed a black
man. I don’t know where that comes from.” She is totally oblivious to the
plight concerned here.

How someone can be in support of a cop
who gunned down a running and surrendering unarmed man, I’ll never know, but
apparently there are those that share my sentiment. The pro Wilson
demonstration attracted others as a mixed black and white crowd in defense of
Brown and began forming in setting up a spontaneous counter protest. They began
to shout in unison, “Hands up, don’t shoot!” in reference to witness statements
and autopsy reports. But in response to the Brown chant, the Wilson crowd began
chanting “Shoot, shoot, shoot!”

All I can say to this is…sick animals…

One Ferguson storefront owner would have
nothing to do with these right-wing loons protesting in favor of Wilson. He
wanted the agitators out of there and go home where they belong. Watch the
following video; it’s self-explanatory on right-wing racist bigotry that got
the owner so upset.

Debating a right-winger on a Tea Party
website, he insisted cops shouldn’t be persecuted “for doing their job.” I get that
all the time. I can guarantee ya though that if it were the other way around…a
rash of black cops shooting unarmed whites, right-wingers would be enraged
with Fox News broadcasting it mornings, noon and nights as racist demanding
something be done.

There are some heroes emerging out of
this and it is not on the side of law officers or the right. As is the case
though, there is always an exception to the rule. Missouri Highway Patrol
Captain Ronald Johnson, who is from Ferguson and was put in charge of police
response, has performed exceptionally well in quelling violent tendencies in
proactively speaking to folk’s concerns.

All the right really has is their
attempts at trying to vilify the victims. News reports constantly reminding us
that Brown was a pot smoker and “might” have had some in his system during the
incident appears, in some minds, to justify Wilson’s killing actions. Again, if
that is the case, I would dare say that a rough estimate of three-quarters of
black or white or brown or yellow marijuana toting Americans line up in front
of Wilson for their just due whether the plant is legal in their state or not.

Calling the peaceful protesters
“hooligans,” “fools,” “looters” and “agitators” isn’t receiving too many
brownie buttons either. If they can’t understand why this incident hasn’t
created an outrage through built up frustration, then they are so blind by bias
they cannot see, or…they are merely the “fools.”

Peaceful protesters the real heroes

Even the moral majority right wants to
set their political views straight on the Ferguson incident. Televangelist Pat
Robertson waffled in to say on his Tuesday August 19, 2014 edition of the ‘700
club’ that, “On the strength of one man who robbed a store and was shot, all of
these thousands of people start tearing the city of Ferguson apart. What is
wrong with people who would destroy the city where they live?” I don’t know,
why don’t he ask Sodom and Gomorrah. He also elaborated on unsubstantiated
reports Brown was high on drugs and a cigar robber.

One can plainly see where Robertson
stands and I can see all his viewers nodding their heads yes in unison as he
preaches his vermin. This is a style of preaching that black eyes’
Christianity.

You should read some of the Breitbart
blog site comments. Here are a representative few:

My comment to this is if ya want to
whine so much about blacks protesting about an unarmed man being shot down in a
Missouri street or choked to death on a NYC sidewalk by cops, then shut up
about your petty Tea Party feelings getting hurt over the IRS picking on little
ol’ you…

Besides, in his comment’s wording, he
expressed his prejudiced low-level mental aptitude loud and clear.

“All this over a reefer smoking thief
with a penchant for violence makes me sick. I really think we have crossed the
line to societal suicide.”

My reply…proceed to puking you pukehead…

“As one gentleman pointed out, if the
best you can come with as the model for your race is a thug who steals from
weak shopkeepers and then blasts out the eye of the arresting cop, there isn’t
too much value in your race to begin with.”

These comment threads were from a
Breitbart article titled, ‘6 Funerals Obama Cared Less About Than Michael
Brown.’ It was complaining about Obama sending WH representatives to Brown’s
funeral, while sending none to six others. The others were Margaret Thatcher, Chris
Kyle, Nicholas Oresko, Lech Kaczinski, Aunt Zeituni and James Foley.

To recall, Thatcher was prime minister
to the UK and is identified warmheartedly by the right with the Reagan era. Delegations
of U.S. representatives were sent to Thatcher’s funeral comprised mostly of
diplomatic personnel and former cabinet members while sending three aides to
Brown’s.

Lech Kaczinski was the fourth president
of the Republic of Poland and died along with his wife in a plane crash on
April 10, 2010. Along with other foreign country dignitaries, the U.S. could
not attend the funeral because the eruption of Iceland’s volcano, Eyjafjallajökull
had grounded all flights over Europe. Obama himself was scheduled to attend,
but his flight had to be cancelled.

Kyle was the former SEAL sniper that was
killed by a gun crazed friend at a shooting range. Orseko was a WWII Medal of
Honor holder amongst over 1,000 others, so I s’pose we shouldn’t condemn “Barry
Sotero” for not attending all of them. Aunt Zeituni was Obama’s father’s sister
whom he had no contact or relationship with, but it’s nice to know that
Brietbart is concerned enough to research the president’s relatives.

As for James Foley, the freelance
journalist that was beheaded by ISIS recently, no one has gone to his funeral
for the mere fact it is not until October 18th.

As far as Breitbart goes in seeking
anything to promote their bigoted cause they also claim that Captain Johnson
was photo’d amongst the protesting crowd flashing a gang sign. Actually Johnson
was expressing a hand sign but it was the greeting insignia of his college
fraternity. Ya know, to try and induce propaganda by associating Johnson with a
hoodlum gang because they know their readers all identify blacks with gangs is
hopeless grappling in itself, but is also merely pathetic pomp much less
journalism.

The above photo by ‘St. Louis
Post-Dispatch,’ Robert Cohen that went viral, surely portrays an individual of
heroism. The person throwing the tear gas canister has been identified and has
related his story. He is Clarence Bledsoe a true hero out of all this if there
was one. His image wearing an American flag shirt throwing a tear gas canister
back where it originated in one hand while holding a bag of potato chips in the
other has become an icon all over the globe.

Bledsoe’s explanation of his actions
that night goes like this as reported. “The tear gas canister landed near Clarence
Bledsoe’s feet at about 10 P.M. Sunday night. He hadn’t been looking for a
fight with officers, he said, but was simply walking home after a long day of
work and had little choice but to wade through all the pandemonium to get to
his apartment. But when the hissing projectile narrowly missed him with
children nearby, all of the anger of the past week welled up within him. Bledsoe
bent down and picked the canister up, ignoring the searing heat burning his
right hand.”

In his own words, “I felt like, Y’all
shooting at me? I’m just trying to get home. I picked it up and threw it back.
I never, ever, ever pictured myself throwing something at the police.”

To downplay the heroism, what was
perceived in reporting through Breibart eyes was that this was proof that the
angry demonstrators were lobbing Molotov cocktails at the police.

The photo below was taken by
photojournalist, Scott Olson who was arrested for going beyond a cordoned off
area even though he was wearing credentials. Now the right will profusely argue
that he should not have gone into the cordoned off area, but let me remind them
that there was a signed documented agreement that police would not arrest
journalists. Complaining about we need to allow police to do their job, while
at the same time arguing not to allow journalists to do theirs is a tad
hypocritical don’t ya think…

Olson, I’m sure will win a Pulitzer for
this image for it portrays all that is wrong between the U.S.s enforcement in
minority communities. With the fully militarized garbed police pointing assault
weapons at one unarmed man with his hands held high, the graffiti sign on the
mailbox is emblematic in saying what all is wrong with this picture.

Below is a video of another jaywalking
encounter, but the culprit is white and armed. Do ya think that the same
scenario played out as it did in Ferguson? Did the officers bark out swearing
orders? Do ya think that the arriving officers instantly began shooting, or
tried and tried to talk with and calm the suspect? When ya get the chance, play
it and find out.

Many unarmed blacks have been shot down
by police forces. Below I give an example of five from a list by journalist Shirin Barghi with their last words then follow with a
description of what happened.

“I
don’t have a gun. Stop shooting.”

Michael Brown; Age: 18; Aug. 09, 2014;
Ferguson, Missouri

Brown is the last in a recent rash of
unarmed black men being killed by police. His cause has stirred action to
counter the trend.

“It’s
not real.”

John Crawford III; Age: 22; Aug. 05, 2014;
Beavercreek, Ohio

Holding a BB gun he pulled from the
shelf while in the Wal-Mart toy section, Crawford was leaning on the butt-end
of the unloaded gun with the barrel pointed to and resting on the floor while
dialing his cell phone. Police entered and opened fire without any warning.

“I
can’t breathe.”

Eric Garner; Age: 43; July 17, 2014; Staten
Island, New York

While selling loose untaxed cigarettes
illegally on a street corner, he was put into an illegal choke hold by a non-uniformed
police officer and once thrown to the ground died three minutes later.

“Please
don’t let me die.”

Kimani Gray; Age: 16; March 09, 2013;
Brooklyn, New York

Allegedly suspecting Kimani was armed, NYPD
policeman opened fire and killed him in the street with seven bullets as he was
running away. While patrolling the streets in an unmarked car, the two cops
spotted Kimani adjusting his trousers in a manner they felt suspicious of.

“Why
did you shoot me.”

Kendrec McDade; Age: 19; March 24, 2012;
Pasadena, California

Responding to a backpack robbery two
Pasadena policemen while approaching the area caught sight of college student
Kendrec walking down the street where one officer fired at him, missed but made
Kendrec flee, The other officer claims the shot fired by his partner was
mistaken as Kendrec who fired the shot, so that is why he began firing at
Kendrec. After the teen fell to the ground, they handcuffed him even though he
was at the time unconscious. He died ninety minutes later.

These five young men had lives with a
face and story. No matter the pettiness of those in attempts to vilify and
dehumanize these five along with all the others, they were human beings, were
born, were nurtured by a loving mother and unfortunately were killed needlessly
at the hands of those sworn to protect them. We are speaking of human lives
here.

For sure, most cops are decent, have
earned their respect and became policemen to serve and better the community. However,
this silent killing trend cannot remain invisible and the public needs to pull
the reins. Initial police reports need to be accurate and certainly not serve
as cover for an unjustified act. The mentality of ‘us versus them’ has to end,
for if any enforcement is to be successful there must be solid connection and
that only unfolds through mutual trust.

American communities are becoming more
policed but underserved. Militarizing community police has got to go. Policemen
have an obligation to be more than the average man, not less; their sworn oath
demands it.

To sum all this up I have to give way to
actor, Jesse Williams. When recently interviewed on CNN by Candy Crowley,
Williams puts it into a perspective that cannot be compared. When you get the
chance watch and listen.

Denigration:

“Remember,
remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from
immigrants and revolutionists.” ― Franklin D. Roosevelt April 21, 1938

If listening only to Republicans in
congress and on the streets, one would think that this current mass exodus of
Central American children crossing our borders in fleeing violence and dire
poverty in their homelands is all due to Obama. Actually though, any person of
reasonable mind realizes that illegal immigration has a long history here in
the states and in particularly from the last portion of the twentieth century
to the present.

Americans have always tingled and
cringed a bit at an influx of immigration even though they themselves come from
families of immigrants. It appears Republicans have decided to take up the responsibility
in promulgating that tradition. Long before this current hostile sentiment
against Hispanic immigration, it was Italians and the Irish that were
persecuted while later, it was the Oriental’s and Hispanic’s turn to be shunned.

As a nation of immigrants, America’s
history is shaded much darker than what we would want to admit when it comes to
immigration. When the Irish potato famine forced Irish immigrants to immigrate,
local businesses shunned them. The Italian immigrant was looked upon as scum,
so treating them as such had merit.

In 1891, nine Italians were tried and
found not guilty of murdering New Orleans Police Chief David Hennessy, but a
mob dragged them from the jail, along with two other Italians being held on
unrelated charges lynching them all. The lynchings were followed by mass
arrests of Italian immigrants throughout New Orleans, and waves of attacks
against Italians nationwide. This mindset was promoted even through respected
journalism and individuals.

Teddy Roosevelt, not yet president,
famously said the lynching incident was “a rather good thing.” As for the
response in The New York Times, it was worse. A March 16, 1891 editorial
referred to the victims of the lynchings as “sneaking and cowardly Sicilians,
the descendants of bandits and assassins.” An editorial the next day argued
that, “Lynch law was the only course open to the people of New Orleans.”

John Parker, who helped organize the
lynch mob was later voted in to be Louisiana’s next governor. In 1911, he said
of Italians that they were, “Just a little worse than the Negro, being if
anything filthier in [their] habits, lawless, and treacherous.

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Prejudice against Chinese and Japanese
immigrants out West became atrocious. They were pelted with hate crimes and the
passage of numerous discriminatory laws. In 1882, President Chester A. Arthur signed
the first illegal immigrant law that made any Chinese or mentally ill newly
arriving immigrants as illegal. Since the anti-immigrant torch has been passed
onto Republicans, now it’s been the Hispanic’s turn, but surely soon to be
overtaken by Islamic anti-sentiment.

Mass immigration has always had a link
tied into U.S. economic and business decisions in cheap labor. The first wave
of Irish became indentured servants, In the latter half of the nineteenth
century southern Italians, primarily from Sicily began to pour in only to find
squatter conditions waiting for them. Of course America needed a
transcontinental railroad, so Chinese immigrants were utilized for hardly any
wages at all; just rank room and board.

Mexican immigration to find work was
really taken advantage of. After the 1920s strict passing of immigration laws,
the doors were left open to Mexico. They were desired by American employers for
their hard work and low income pay. In the 1940’s during the war years, with a
shortage of labor, the federal government actually imported Mexicans to work
the agricultural fields under the ‘Bracero Program.’ Of course it was temporary
for once the war ended and the U.S. no longer needed their labor they were to
be shipped back home to Mexico. But employers brought their Mexican cheap labor
back to work illegally until President Dwight Eisenhower launched, “Operation
Wetback” setting up the first federally funded border patrol with 1,075 border
agents that have been increased ever since, but to no avail as it is not the sole
answer.

Under President Obama more deportations
have occurred than under any other president, while under the eight years of
President George W. Bush saw a marked increase in illegal immigration and a
drop in immigration enforcement. Still though, Republicans put all the weight
of the immigration monkey on the back of Obama’s administration.

The GOP semi-deity President Ronald
Reagan signed into law the ‘Immigration and Reform Control Act’ (IRCA) in 1986;
a blanket amnesty for over 2.7 million illegal aliens. Can ya just imagine if
Obama were hinting to conducting anything remotely similar to this…he would be
crucified by the right.

Now you may be involved with a
Republican debating immigration when ya remind them, their own family
backgrounds were immigrants. They might reply back true, but they came here
legally. Well, they came here perhaps when there were no immigration laws since
the first immigration law wasn’t enacted until 1882 as explained above and only
involved Chinese or mentally handicapped immigration.

So, if they want to go by laws, it was
the signing into law the ‘William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection
Reauthorization Act’ in 2008 by President W. Bush that Obama must now abide by.
The law states other than Mexican or Canadian children, all other children
cannot be deported until a hearing is held on their behalf before an
immigration judge. Those Central American kids are here legally under that law.
Now since we are a nation of laws as Republicans always proclaim, they wouldn’t
want Obama to break no law in rounding up these children and sending them back
to harm’s way, now would they?

There was also another immigration push
by W. Bush in the winter of 2004 with an initiative proposal for illegal
workers to be treated as guest workers here in the states to have temporary
three year status in two consecutive sets for a total of six years to be
allowed to work here but travel abroad and reenter the states to go back to
work.

Just listen to how childish, callous and
irresponsible Republican politicians respond to this latest wave of child
immigration.

Representative Steve King (R-IA) on the
Dream Act ~ “For everyone who’s a valedictorian,
there’s another hundred out there who weigh 130 pounds — and they’ve got calves
the size of cantaloupes because they’re hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across
the desert. Those people would be legalized with the same act.” (07/18/13)

No matter if you’re as smart as they come
and have a lot to offer to your country, you’re out of here because of those dastardly cantaloupe calves.

Representative Mo Brooks (R-AL) on Dream
kids ~ “How do you ensure that illegal
aliens are loyal to America and not another country? Is it wise to entrust illegal
aliens with questionable loyalties with America’s military secrets and weapons,
including weapons of mass destruction? Is it enough that illegal aliens join
America’s military, or should they be required to be honorably discharged or
serve in combat before receiving amnesty for past illegal conduct? These
individuals have to be absolutely 100 percent loyal and trustworthy.”
(04/02/14 & again in mid-July 2014)

Yeah Dreamers will have to be constantly
watched even though they are some of the most trustworthy servicemen; ask any
military personnel. Yeah, it’s not just a war from within that’s occurring;
Brooks claims there is also “a war on whites” as well.

Representative Michelle Bachmann (R-MN)
~ “What I believe we should do is have a
100 percent tax on remittances, the money that illegal aliens send back to
these countries. What we have to
recognize is that this truly is a war against the American people and if we
don’t act like it and take this border seriously, we’re going to have even more
gangs.” (08/05/14)

What war with what type of Americans?
The only war and bombing going on is inside Bachmann’s head.

Representative Louie Gohmert (R-TX) ~ “Even with $3.7 billion that’s requested,
there’s no way for what’s being called for is going to stop the invasion that’s
occurring. That’s why I’m hoping that my governor will utilize Article 1,
Section 10, that allows a state that is being invaded — in our case more than
twice as many just in recent months, more than twice as many than invaded
France on D-Day with a doubling of that coming en route, on their way here now
under Article 1, Section 10, the state of Texas would appear to have the right,
not only to use whatever means, whether it’s troops, even using ships of war,
even exacting a tax on interstate commerce that wouldn’t normally be allowed to
have or utilize, they’d be entitled in order to pay to stop the invasion.” (07/11/14)

Never mind that Article 1 Section 10 was
framed into the constitution most likely with thoughts in mind for action
against an adult military “invasion” and not an unarmed child one.

Representative Todd Rokita (R-IN) ~ “He said, look, we need to know just from a
public-health standpoint, with Ebola circulating and everything else. No,
that’s my addition to it, not necessarily his, but he said we need to know the
condition of these kids.”

Even after Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-GA) had
been ridiculed earlier for suggesting to the CDC that Ebola could be carried by
these immigrant children, Rokita still goes for it pulling his colleague, Rep.
Larry Bucshon’s (R-IN) comments in on it and embellishing after the radio host
questioned him since Bucshon is a heart surgeon and should know better. No Ebola
breakout has ever occurred in the Western Hemisphere. Besides, no one with
Ebola could have made the trek from Central America to the U.S. and live
through it. Rokita was merely placating the fear factor into the fold and
believe me, I caught the wrath on the right-wing blog sites as they all
believed it and were using it as fodder.

Now for the winning comment for all this
conspiratorial and false Republican ideology goes to; drum roll please…Michelle
Bachmann.

During a July 30, 2014 interview on
debunked Christian historian, David Barton’s ‘Wallbuilder’s Live’ radio show,
this is what Bachmann had to say.

“Now
President Obama is trying to bring all of those foreign nationals, those
illegal aliens to the country and he has said that he will put them in the
foster care system. That’s more kids that you can see how…we can’t imagine
doing this, but if you have a hospital and they are going to get millions of
dollars in government grants if they can conduct medical research on somebody,
and a Ward of the state can’t say ‘no,’ a little kid can’t say ‘no’ if they’re
a Ward of the state; so here you could have this institution getting millions
of dollars from our government to do medical experimentation and a kid can’t
even say ‘no.’ It’s sick.”

Here’s a copy of the audio:

Now actually on her err-head behalf, there
was some controlled research conducted on HIV-positive foster children with new
AIDS drugs with the support and monitoring of NYCs child welfare department.
But if Bachmann and other right-wing conspiracy groups still want to go down
this route, this research was conducted by the drug giant GlaxoSmithKline
beginning in the late 1980s and ending in the early 1990s…all under Ronald
Reagan and George H.W. Bush’s watches.

It just seems that to the overall Republican’s
eye of things, Americans’ discomfort (whether it be through fear or greed) with
cultural differences translates into racial angst that further degrades into
intolerance is a pushed implanted fact and that’s just the way the GOP
politician likes it to be when it comes to his/her constituent base.

Broken policies and using reform as a
political wedge is just not working anymore for Republicans. Why…because today
the majority of Americans do indeed want bipartisan comprehensive immigration
reform. Even a recent poll conducted this past June by the center-right group,
‘American Action Forum’ showed that 78% primary voter Republicans support
immigration reform nationwide.

Still, out of fear of their Tea Party
extreme right base, Boehner and his House of Republicans prefer to continue sitting
on the senate’s passed immigration reform bill.

On top of all this, in usual GOP fashion
to blame Democrats for what Republicans are actually doing, Rep. Dan Marino
(R-PA) stated on the House podium on August 2nd that Democrats have
not done anything on immigration. Minority leader, Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was not
going to have any of that and confronts Marino and his statements. He then
claims, “I did the research on it. You might want to try it. You might want to
try it, Madam Leader. Do the research on it. Do the research. I did it. That’s
one thing that you don’t do.”

She followed him off the podium and gave
him a good spanking concerning the facts. Later, Pelosi’s office said that
Marino had apologized, but a little later than that a Marino spokesman said
that no, Marino did not apologize. Whatever…he still got his bells retuned.

In July of this year, Obama asked
Congress for $3.73 billion in emergency appropriations to address the influx of
child migrants crossing Southwest borders from Central America.

First, John Boehner puts out a feeder
thread comment in blaming President Obama, “This is the problem of the
president’s own making. When is he going to take responsibility for something?”
See, again…the lay all the blame on the president game play.

But once again, it is Boehner who fails
to act, instead letting the Tea Party run wild and ram through an outrageous
plan to deport 550,000 dream kids living in the U.S. and whittled the $3.73
billion down to $659 million to deport the newly arrived child immigrants. Even
this fails in not mustering up enough Republican votes, as Republicans still
didn’t want to move on any immigration legislation. Boehner was forced to pull
his own Republican bill. One of the architects of the bill, Rep. Kay Granger
(R-TX) said, “There are people [GOPers] who just don’t want to do anything.”

Out of frustration to even get his
Republican House to act, Boehner then announces hours before the August recess
through a press release demanding Obama act alone to secure the border by
executive order. Chiming along, other Republican House leaders through their
own press release insisted Obama can address the child immigrant ordeal “without
the need for congressional action.”

Do you see the utter nonsense in this?
This is beyond ironical, it even surpasses being hypocritical; it is simply
barmy. Just the day before, the Republican House nailed Obama with an asinine lawsuit
for doing just that…exercising his rights to executive orders.

This recent rash of Central American
children crossing the U.S. border is more than posturing theatrics and
political games; it is an ethical one primarily. Apparently ethics is not a
right-wing trait, for to say that the answer to all this is too simply send
them back to harm’s way is low thinking in the humanities. Mothers’ there truly
do not want to separate from their children, but they would rather do that than
watch them die and collect their body in some street. I think that a mother from
anywhere would do what they could to seek refuge for their child. If we really
want them to stay home, then we need to forget borders all together and aid
these countries in coming up with safer environments where mothers feel more
secure.

On one Tea Party blog site a woman was saying
that God was on her side with the invasion of illegals crossing our borders. I
replied if you are truly Christian, you have to realize that in being
‘Christian’ means to be a follower of ‘Christ’ and his teachings and surely you
don’t suggest that Jesus would preach to ignore these hurting children simply
because they originated from the other side of some border. Can’t ya recall
that song you learned in Sunday school that went, “Jesus loves the little
children of the world?” It doesn’t just say the children of Tea Party America…“it
says of the world.” I never got back a reply.

I only have one question to ask
Republican politicians when it comes to their desire in voting no for the
‘Dream Act’ and deporting the entire dream act children out of the country and
it is the following…

How can you consider a child born and
raised here an illegal immigrant when it is a beholden constitutional right and
then deport them from the only country they’ve ever known?

Lonestar
Red Dripping:

When the cloud bursts it begins raining.
What’s raining down in Texas right now would be the death knell for any
rational political environment. But this is Texas and the Republican
stranglehold is mighty in its tight grip. Nonetheless, damage is indeed
filtering in.

Attorney General Greg Abbott running for
the governor’s seat is an upright Republican rising up through the GOP ranks
while avoiding any meat grinders along the way…until now. And though his past
record may have been quiet it most certainly isn’t squeaky clean. Abbott is
apparently by nature quiet, but he keeps surrounded by his henchmen to do the
bullying and dirty excuse talking for him.

When asked a question, he really won’t
say much and when pressed, he will totally avoid the issue leaving the topic
open until later when an office spokesman will come out.

Abbott as any Republican is strong on
tort reform and in his position, has pushed many bills through legislation in
passing laws to greatly curtail lawsuits due to personal injury. In backing
corporations and insurance companies, Abbott’s argument was, “Our legal system
was abused in this state. There were many invalid claims that were filed in court
that clogged up the courts…” But the fact remains that his being bound to a
wheelchair resulted in a personal injury lawsuit he filed and has greatly
benefitted from.

In 1984, while jogging down a ritzy
neighborhood sidewalk, an old oak tree fell on him crushing his spine.
Unemployed with no money, no health insurance and an ever increasing medical
bill, he did what most would in his situation…he sued the homeowner.

He won the law suit and Abbott was
granted $5.8 million to be paid out in monthly payments for the rest of his
life. Most of that settlement was not to cover the $82,811.85 medical costs but
was for noneconomic losses in pain and suffering from mental anguish.

It’s been 30 years now and he is still
receiving payments. Abbott would never discuss the lawsuit until this summer
when he made a simple statement saying that he “sued the insurance company.”
But that is not so. Roy W. Moore the property owner the tree was on claims he
had no property liability insurance.

Abbott was confronted as to the reason
he would want Ted Nugent to campaign for him after exchanging praises for one
another in front of a February 2014 Denton campaign crowd with Abbot calling
Nugent his “blood brother” and “a fighter of freedom in this country,”

At a Las Vegas January 2014 gun expo, Nugent
had just recently described Obama as “a communist-raised, communist-educated,
communist-nurtured, subhuman mongrel,” During a 2008 Fox News interview when it
was pointed out the vast majority of illegals are merely crossing over the
border unarmed, what would you do to fix the situation, Nugent replied, “In an
unauthorized entry, armed, like they are right now, invading our country, I’d
like to shoot them dead.”

Once told of that Abbott simply stated
he was unaware of Nugent’s remarks in stating, “I know nothing of that,” and
cut off the reporter. As in normal step, through his campaign office he later
issues a statement, “This is not the kind of language I would use or endorse in
any way. It’s time to move beyond this, and I will continue to focus on the
issues that matter to Texans.”

There ya have it; an old and new whacko
Nugent statement and Abbott was never, quote unquote, aware of either.
Honestly…he knew, he just likes making appearances with the rocked-off rocker
because Nugent’s nonsense attracts good ol’ bubbas.

On August 29, 2014 Abbott porked out of
the debate between him and Wendy Davis, the Democrat candidate for governor
that was to be held on September 02, 2014. Again, Abbott does not announce it;
it comes from his campaign office release stating, “Due to our inability to
agree on specific details of the format, Attorney General Greg Abbott will
regretfully not be participating in the WFAA debate.” This said by Robert
Black, senior campaign adviser on that Friday morning.

No consideration at all in the late
announcement. I’m sure Ms. Davis could have made rearrangements to fill that day
as more productive if she had been notified at least a week earlier.
Instead she most likely was still preparing for a debate that was not going to
happen because some cluck, cluck sounds were emanating from Abbot’s campaign
headquarters.

Even worse, the pretext from recusing
themselves from the debate is an awful big rotten watermelon hanging out there,
for the excuse they gave is a fib. Abbott’s campaign manager, Wayne Hamilton on
May 28th wrote and sent a letter to WFAA expressing that Abbott and
his campaign accepted all terms of the debate. WFAA has posted that letter for
all to see.

Now just days later from weaseling out
of the debate, another news report comes out concerning Abbott’s more devious
side.

News media outlets have just learned
that Abbott as attorney general officiated a raid on a charity organization in
2010 under the presumption of voter fraud.

Police officers in bullet proof vests
and guns drawn raided a house that was headquarters for ‘Houston Votes’ a
nonprofit organization that caters to poor districts registering folks to vote.
After serving a search warrant, the officers took away all the organization’s
computers, hard drives and documents.

This devastated ‘Houston Votes’ works
and had to shut down until they could get there records back. Finding no proof
of fraud, the case was closed after one year of the raid. So could ‘Houston
Votes’ get back the belongings…nope…Abbott had all their documents and
computers destroyed through a court injunction order.

Now the blind, back Abbott in saying “he
is duty bound to preserve the integrity of the ballot box.” But where’s the
fraud and where is ‘Houston Votes’ personal equipment and documents that were
stolen? No ma’am, what Abbott is preserving here is the power of the Republican
Party in Texas. This was strictly a political move to stymie poor folks from
voting.

Boy-howdy, do we have a lot of
Republican governors in hot water. Former Republican governor of Virginia, Bob
McDonnell and his wife Maureen were found guilty by an impartial jury on
several counts of public corruption and falsifying loan documents.

North Carolina Republican, Pat McCrory
has been subpoenaed by a grand jury with his ties to ‘Duke Energy’ that
attempted to cover up details of a toxic sludge coal ash spill into the Dean
River; the third largest spill of its kind. McCrory had been an executive
employee of the energy company for 28 years and received $1 million in
donations from ‘Duke Energy’ in his bid for the governorship. McCrory’s NC EPA
didn’t even give a hand slap when they fined the $50 billion energy company a
mere $99,111.00 for this and other spills which they have not yet paid. McCrory
sold his $10,000.00 Duke Energy stock shares just after the spill and did not
disclose the sale in state ethics filings. May be a rub my back and I’ll rub
yours kind of thing going on here with McCrory and ‘Duke Energy.’

Republican governor of Kansas, Sam
Brownback is under FBI investigation along with three of his former staff for
influence peddling in a Medicaid scheme for financial gain. Yeah, Brownback is
also the governor who blames Obama for his state’s poor economy and job
opportunities insisting it is not his tax “theory” implementation that is
tanking the Kansas budget.

Florida Republican governor, Rick Scott
who prior to winning the governorship, was involved in the largest Medicare
fraud by Columbia/HCA when he was CEO there, has taken his fraudulent behavior
into Florida’s governor’s mansion. In court depositions concerning his shady
business dealings he has invoked the 5th seventy-five times. It’s
been found that Scott routinely skirts state record public laws by using
private e-mails to discuss state business, shielding himself and associates
from Florida’s internal ‘code of conduct’ ethics laws. Scott has been sued by
Tallahassee’s attorney, Steven Andrews. Chief Circuit Judge Charles Francis ruled
Google and Yahoo will have to turn over information about private email
accounts used by Scott and staff.

Maine’s Republican Governor Paul LePage
loaded his offices with lobbyists to promote environmental deregulation, has
been attempting to gut the state’s open records act and fired a state employee
favoring policies LePage wanted repealed. Currently, from results of a FBI
investigation, LePage has been found guilty of bias towards employers and
prejudice against the jobless in unemployment claims.

Ohio’s Republican Governor John Kasich’s
‘Frackgate’ controversy has him in hot water as it touched off an exposure of a
public relations scheme between his governorship and Halliburton, while
Michigan’s governor, Rick Snyder’s implementation of ‘Martial Law’ taking over
city properties after firing elected officials replaced by his so called
emergency management and his quiet ‘Aramark’ prison privatization scandal is gaining attention from the eyes of justice.

Georgia Republican Governor Nathan Deal,
who prior to the governorship resigned from Congress to avoid an ethics investigation,
a new investigation is underway for nepotism when Deal doled out $240,000.00 to
Magnolia Capital LLC from his campaign funds. The company is owned by his
daughter. The chairman of the Georgia State Ethics Committee appointed by Deal
obstructed investigations into the Deal campaign donations to the daughter’s
company.

Lest we not forget New Jersey Governor
Chris Christie’s ‘Bridgegate’ and all the other scandals the investigation has
uncovered such as financial schemes utilizing Pennsylvania state money and his
use of the $1.8 billion in federal Hurricane Sandy relief/recovery money slipping $6 million of it out to an unrelated development project. Then there’s Scott Walker, Republican governor of
Wisconsin who’s under a state investigation for cronyism, mismanagement,
self-enrichment, avoiding public archiving and illegal campaign coordination in
the ‘John Doe’ probe.

Now we have Texas governor, Rick Perry
who just got indicted by a grand jury over his veto of funding the ‘Texas
Public Integrity Unit’ (TPIU) for criminal abuse of power. Perry did the veto
in protest to Austin’s district attorney, Rosemary Lehmberg’s conviction to
drunken driving. It’s strictly a political move to disrupt the more liberal Austin
government lawyers.

Lehmberg was in the process of
conducting an investigation of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of
Texas (CPRIT). The institute received a ton of money from the Republican Texas
Legislature to award grants to high-level medical research projects. The
problem…a lot of the money went to people who didn’t qualify for it. Some of
those folks had close ties to Perry. Just a few months ago, Lehmberg’s office
indicted CPRIT’s former director over his allegedly improper disbursement of an
$11 million grant. Essentially, Perry was funneling state money to campaign
contributors.

Lehmberg was pulled over by police in
her car last spring while the investigation was just underway. It was a golden
opportunity to get her meddling off the case. Besides, under the helm of
Perry’s stretched governorship, two Republican district attorneys, Terry
McEachern and Rick Harrison were arrested for DUI. McEachern was aggravated DWI
and Harrison’s DUI involved a collision with him driving the wrong way down a
one way street. Perry said or did nothing on both cases.

Perry is claiming being the victim. This
is always a bully’s move when he feels bullied. He even said, “Some would use
partisan political theatrics to rip away at the very fabric of our state’s
constitution. This was exactly what he was doing to Ms. Lehmberg; a public
official bullying another public official and the TPIU to get them off his back
from investigating his contribution ties to CPRIT.

Perry, among a slew of other Republicans
are claiming this indictment is strictly political theatrics on Democrats’
part. But lo and behold the judge in charge of the indictment proceedings, Bert
Richardson is a very conservative Republican. No nonsense San Antonio lawyer,
Michael McCrum, appointed by Richardson to be the special prosecutor, will not
take a case if he feels it is unwarranted. McCrum has accepted after review.
His peers describe him as apolitical, steadfast and a straight shooter and
although he has Republican affiliations, he is bipartisan.

The governor does not dispute the facts
of the case. He’s actually bragged about them. No one disputes the governor's
power to veto. These indictments don’t charge Perry for doing so; they charge
him with an abuse of official capacity and coercion of a public servant. Until
the trial starts, there’s a lot we don’t yet know.

Now that Perry has been indicted, he
cannot carry a gun. So now on his little jogging forays he cannot shoot a
coyote…it’ll now be hand to paw combat…the coyote’s revenge…

Cyclo-Mono:

You like this segment title? Chemists use
these affixes in referencing a particular chemical structure. Cyclo refers to a
structural formula that’s cyclic while mono refers to only one component like
carbon monoxide. I like to
incorporate cyclo-mono also into the political arena, for to me, it conveys a
one way cycle. That cycle could be broken down into both dominant respective
parties, but it really fits nicely in describing the Republican obstinacy.
Anywhere Obama wanted to drive the nation, it was a resounding Republican one
way street in the opposite and wrong direction over and over in their record
busting filibusters, their incessant desire to drastically cut debt by
defunding social programs at a time of economic duress, their 55 repeals of the
ACA law and their sequestration, debt ceiling hostage taking, partisanship, fiscal
cliff antics and shutting down the government. Going into the off season
elections this fall, this is all they offer on what they stand for…anti Obama.
No mandate of principle or platform of policy.

Impressions in themselves are like
assumptions and can be misleading. Take the word vegatarian for instance. Since
a vegetarian primarily eats plants one would assume the word comes from
vegetable, but that is not so; it is from the Latin vegetus meaning ‘full of
life.’

The impression one gets with the
Ferguson incident is that the right is pro militarized police enforcement, but
that is only for today. Since it is temporarily the side they’ve jumped into
the pit with without even questioning its glaring examples of racial injustice,
they applaud the militarization of U.S. police forces. But it is these same
folks that still decry foul for the ATF using tanks against the ‘Branch Davidian’ cult
during the 1993 government para military siege of the Mt. Carmel compound just outside Waco,
Texas.

Racism today is not in a traditional
format where it ended in a lynching, but for sure metaphorically, the noose is
still set.

Right-wing pundits or politicians will
use conspiracy theories to embellish or contradict factual data, or at times
even their own previous rants with manufactured stories to rally their gullible
base. Senator Ted Cruz is a master at this, but he had better watch out, for the
table could turn on him.

A conspiracy theory could easily develop
concerning him. With his Cuban background, his father once fighting for Fidel
Castro and his actual foreign born status, one could easily create a conspiracy
scenario of him infiltrating American politics to implant division and mayhem to
bring down the U.S. government making it vulnerable to a takeover. His attempts
to divide the Republican representatives in shutting down the government even
alludes to support in this little tidbit conspiracy ranting.

The left has to be cautious though in
hating those who hate. Cruz in the mid run will be a failure, for he goes by
false conspiracies and untruths that is dumbing down his already shrinking
base. He lands with no iron heels; he only has powder puff toes.

Speaking of powder puffs, I got hold of
one on the News Max conservative blog site. The thread is listed below. It does
indeed show they like to talk, but will avoid the walk.

MilitiaMan to OldWhiteGuy

You are one stupid MF’er! You’re right,
it’s only children crossing our borders. Bring on the next American Revolution
so we can get rid of all the pagan Libtards like yourself!

BJA to MilitiaMan

Wow MilitiaMan...don’t really know how
to express yourself except through cursing and slurring defamation...what are
you...some kind of big boy with little britches.

Mr. Oldwhiteguy is quite the intelligent
fella, far beyond your low rank. I’m more in line with your ranking...I’m not
just a libtard, I’m one heck of a redneck liberal and instead of starting up a
revolution as your empty rhetoric suggests, why not you and I go one on
one...

What do ya say cowpunch...

MilitiaMan to BJA • a month ago

Hi BJA or Liberal POS,

What you consider intelligent does not
concern me in the least. I would gladly end your life anytime you Liberal
POS:-)!

BJA to MilitiaMan • a month ago

Talking trash gets ya nowhere...

Do we need to set up an
appointment...your call...

MilitiaMan to BJA • a month ago

Please set up an appointment you sorry
mf’er:-)! I would love to introduce myself!

BJA to MilitiaMan • a month ago

Let’s get this rolling, ya want to swap
emails then we’ll go from there...

MilitiaMan to BJA • a month ago

Yes please! I think you’ll find that I
can be very persuasive. You will be sorry you ever were a Liberal POS.

BJA to MilitiaMan • a month ago

Good, I accept any and all challenges
and you have definitely challenged...I fully accept...

My e-mail is texan@windstream.net where’s
yours...

It’s easy to hide behind a screen while
talking trash...I think that we all feel we can respect those that back up
their words with action.

I have been sorry for many things, but
this most certainly is not one of them.

It’s on...

MilitiaMan to BJA • a month ago

Hi Liberal POS,

Don’t think I’ve forgotten about your
sorry ass! As soon as I verify that your email is legit, I will be making
contact with you very soon! And respect is one of the many things you will feel
for the time that I allow you to:-). See you soon you scumbag POS!

BJA to MilitiaMan • a month ago

Waiting on you...

After that, I never heard back from the MilitiaMan.

Ya know, both parties use fear tactics,
I get e-mails all the time from Democratic campaigns that if you don’t help and
send money, tis very likely the Republican opponent will win, but Republicans
have it down to an art form in a constant wave of stressing their base through
fear tactics. That is why the typical Republican, but in particular the more
extreme always seems mad. Allow me to explain…

Human beings naturally use anger to
cover fear. That fear emanates through insecurities and those insecurities are
what the right-wing politician, pundits and conservative radio shows espouse
upon. Anger, fear and insecurities are all tied into emotion rather than
factual reasoning. That is why the right-wing will always trump truthful facts
with belief.

Through these divisive tactics, comes
the Republican’s modus operandi of fueling that insecure void of their slipping
power hold to blame the traditionally less powerful such as the poor, ethnic
and immigrant. It is all their fault. This is a sad route in vain attempts to
compensate those insecurities, for the end result is fomented hate, irrational
conspiracies and a worsening of their own inadequate conditions.

This nation’s core value is based on
unity, not division. This diversity exemplified in America’s populace has borne
the best of ideas and innovations that the world over has benefitted from.
Imagine if every American citizen, no matter race, creed, color or social
standing had equal access to proper education and upbringing in what could be
realized.

Translation is a true art form and
opinion; it is not necessarily factual works. Human beings have done their
fallible best to translate, but an opinion derived conclusion only supports a
base system and not basic truths.

So goes religions as picked apart to
support a belief. No matter what Republican’s self-righteousness leads them to
believe, the world as yet still has room for all…even for them…

About Me

Entered the world as Bruce John Anderson. With a dad as Bruce and two John dangrads (grandpas), grandma thought it too confusing, hence the nickname B.J. I've had ever since I was six months old; yet some folks refer to me as simply...The Beej.

Born in Stephenville, Texas on the Sunday morn of 11/09/52 and while growing up in the Fort Worth area, I have a West Texas flair about perception in life. Currently, I’m a misplaced Texan residing in NW Pa. and that is OK, for one Texan is about equal odds to one Yankee state. This ol' Texan does indeed love the snow up here. Snow is about the only thing I know of that can even make a junkyard look pretty.

Graduated: Trinity HS (Euless, TX) in ‘71 and later from The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) in ‘84 with a Bachelors in geology.

Had my first set of children Amber (1971) & Jason (1974) as a young man and my second set Claire (2003) & Paige (2005) I had as an old man. Am married to sweetness in Veronica my wife.

I extol the science disciplines working as a microbiologist, geophysicist, chemist & geologist.

Work has taken me into 39 countries. It’s amazing witnessing firsthand the varying cultures and environs, but prefer the myriad similarities; the old man sitting on a tree stump in front of his central Sudan mud hut was the same old man sitting in his favorite rocker on a West Texas front porch; both just sitting back watching the world go by while pondering it all.

My motto in life is don't take it so seriously, it's not like it's permanent.